u/Wrong-Section-8175

Hi everyone, I am actively looking for a job as a computer programmer, in my local area, Houston, TX. I currently have a 5-page resume. I know it should be shorter, but it's not easy for me to figure out which things are important enough to leave in and which things to take out.

Any advice on my resume would be appreciated! I am looking for human feedback, not what ChatGPT thinks. Please help me! All advice and input will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Hi, I'm Philip. I have a very good mathematics background, and recently, I came up with a neat new innovative way to forecast events. I haven't verified the concept yet (i.e., I haven't coded anything or tried any analyses out yet), but I'm cautiously optimistic that my idea is better than some of the existing techniques for forecasting, such as discriminant analysis or multiple linear regression.

I want to start a business forecasting events for people who need that kind of work done. I have thought about charging something like $100 / forecast. I would think that weather, politics, and stocks forecasting might be hot areas that people would want to buy my services for. I think that stocks predictions in particular would be very desirable forecasting subjects for my prospective customers.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do to get customers? I am the only founder of my project at this time, and the only person who is working on it or who knows how the system works. Should I try Google ads someday? Are there forums I should post to, or would that be considered spamming? What can I do to get people to want to try out my service? I thought about doing a few sample forecasts and posting about them somewhere--maybe I could start a blog that would go along with my consulting firm idea--but I feel quite ignorant about what I should do, from a business perspective, to try to get the word out about my business in an effective way.

Thanks very much for any advice or insights anyone can provide!

-Philip

Update: I forgot to mention, I am considering doing a "publicity stunt" to promote my business: I am thinking of posting a forecast of hunger metrics in Africa, based on government spending levels. I am wondering if this or some other activity could generate more interest in my statistics consulting services.

(Please note: This is a request for information that could help members of this community, NOT a promotion. I promise that I will not promote my app on this site. I am just gathering information about how to help other people with my app. When the time is right, I will consider posting Reddit and other ads to the site, but for now, I am gathering information about an idea that could help people get in shape...not promoting or advertising for anything. Thank you for understanding.)

Hi, I'm a math and computer programming person, in addition to a fitness enthusiast. I'm thinking about devising an internet/mobile app that would help people lose weight and get in shape in other ways by forecasting the success of possible workout plans, and using statistics and existing data to recommend workouts to users based on their and others' history of successes and failures at working out at different levels and in different ways. I would gather information including age, weight, height, and gender, and I would recommend workouts to users and ask them to submit data regarding whether or not they were able to complete the recommended workout each day.

The app would be free for the first four weeks at first.

If I built an app like this, would anyone on this sub-reddit consider using it?? Also, if you don't like how it sounds right now, can you think of changes or additional features that the app should have that would make you want to use it more? I'm very open to feedback and changes regarding this app idea. I am currently taking a business model course online via the University of Maryland, and one of their suggestions is to *validate your segment*. Thus, I am here asking people that are in my target segment--those of you who are interested in fitness, including cutting weight--if they have any suggestions or comments about my idea.

If you can think of features or changes that would make the app more desirable to you, please let me know!

Thanks so much!

-Philip

Hi everyone,

My name is Philip. I have a math degree from 2008. I had a very severe mental health problem that I'm just coming out of. In 2010-2011, I worked briefly as a computer programmer. I have always been good at programming things, and have coded in C++ since I was 12.

Coming out of my mental health thing, I'm finding that it's very difficult to get a job. Could someone who knows the ropes these days tell me if it is at all realistic to try to go with the following plan?...: 1) "Upskill" or whatever and teach myself Python/Django/SQL from internet resources, 2) Create 5 well-done portfolio projects in Python/Django/SQL--I decided on, an app that plays chess (with good AI), a poker app (with bad AI), a simple ed-tech website that lets users post "courses" with quizzes and text-lecture-slides and also take others' posted courses, a "request for patents" web directory where corporate users with corporate email addresses can post patents their firm would pay for and other users can browse those patents and comment, and a simple social app that has chat rooms and different "admin privileges" for users who run different groups--3) Build a good resume and write a solid cover letter and try to get junior Python jobs in Houston, TX, where I currently live or remote jobs.

Is my attempted foray back into professional computer programming a waste of time? Should I just get a job in retail and try to work my way up to manager? What do you think the best course of action is for me, and is there any amount of additional learning and/or projects that I could do that would get me taken seriously by employers again?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!

Hi everyone,

My name is Philip. I have a math degree from 2008. I had a very severe mental health problem that I'm just coming out of. In 2010-2011, I worked briefly as a computer programmer. I have always been good at programming things, and have coded in C++ since I was 12.

Coming out of my mental health thing, I'm finding that it's very difficult to get a job. Could someone who knows the ropes these days tell me if it is at all realistic to try to go with the following plan?...: 1) "Upskill" or whatever and teach myself Python/Django/SQL from internet resources, 2) Create 5 well-done portfolio projects in Python/Django/SQL--I decided on, an app that plays chess (with good AI), a poker app (with bad AI), a simple ed-tech website that lets users post "courses" with quizzes and text-lecture-slides and also take others' posted courses, a "request for patents" web directory where corporate users with corporate email addresses can post patents their firm would pay for and other users can browse those patents and comment, and a simple social app that has chat rooms and different "admin privileges" for users who run different groups--3) Build a good resume and write a solid cover letter and try to get junior Python jobs in Houston, TX, where I currently live or remote jobs.

Is my attempted foray back into professional computer programming a waste of time? Should I just get a job in retail and try to work my way up to manager? What do you think the best course of action is for me, and is there any amount of additional learning and/or projects that I could do that would get me taken seriously by employers again?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!